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Frank Lloyd Wright

Early Modern Movement Architecture

American architect, 1867 to 1959, who over a seventy year career invented the Prairie house, preached an organic architecture grown from site and material, and produced in Fallingwater, Taliesin, the Johnson Wax building and the spiral Guggenheim Museum some of the most original buildings of the twentieth century. Eight of his works are inscribed together on the World Heritage List.

Facts
Birth Year
1867 1
Death Year
1959 1
Nationality
American 1
Defining Contribution
Organic architecture; the Prairie house; Fallingwater and the Guggenheim 1
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 1949.

Source American Institute of Architects Official Site
Source Encyclopedia Britannica
Open Plan, Concepts

The flowing interiors of the Prairie houses opened the modern open plan.

Source Encyclopedia Britannica

Frank Lloyd Wright is organic architecture leading and defining figure.

Source Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Official Site

Awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1941.

Source Royal Institute of British Architects Official Site

Wright was among the architects featured in the 1932 Museum of Modern Art exhibition

Frank Lloyd Wright coined Usonian for his own affordable American house designs.

In Style

Source Frank Lloyd Wright (Wikipedia)

Influenced

Source Pritzker Architecture Prize: Jorn Utzon biography

Ando traveled to study buildings by masters including Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Source Wikipedia

Influenced By

Wright worked at Adler and Sullivan and called Sullivan his Lieber Meister.

Source Wikipedia

Works Designed

Source Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Official Site

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Source Wikipedia
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1. Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Official Site
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.
  • Associated With: Open Plan
  • Associated With: Cantilever
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Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Works Designed: Robie House, Frederick C. Robie House, lead section
  • Influenced By: Louis Sullivan
  • Influenced: Tadao Ando
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Royal Institute of British Architects Official Site
Royal Institute of British ArchitectsAssociated With: Royal Institute of British ArchitectsView the Source
American Institute of Architects Official Site
American Institute of ArchitectsAssociated With: American Institute of ArchitectsView the Source
Pritzker Architecture Prize: Jorn Utzon biography
Influenced: Jorn Utzon, Biography page body
Quote, Influenced: Jorn Utzon, Biography page body
An admirer of the ideas of Gunnar Asplund, as well as Frank Lloyd Wright while still in school, Utzon acknowledges that Aalto, Asplund and Wright were all major influences in his own work.
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Frank Lloyd Wright (Wikipedia)
In Style: Organic Architecture, intro: exemplified organic architecture in FallingwaterView the Source

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